Pages

February 27, 2012

In her solo show "heut schau ich mir schöne Bilder an damit ich besser schlafen kann" at project space Viktor Bucher Sophie Hirsch presents three huge objects made from plastic foile (until March 17, 2012) and with "Souterrain" Lotte Lyon is reacting to the Lisa Ruyter's art space in her installations and photographies (only until March 3, 2012).

February 25, 2012

Celebrating Gustav Klimt’s 150th birthday the exhibition focuses on chief works from the Leopold Museum’s own collection, accompanied by early works and singular loans (mostly his famous landscapes) from important Austrian and international collections, as well as drawings from all periods of his artistic career. The show is complemented by numerous contemporary photographs, items from his own art and furniture collection, personal memorabilia and approximately 400 written documents sent by Klimt to his life’s companion Emilie Flöge. Additionaly part of Klimt’s studio has been reconstructed. Until Aug 27, 2012.

February 24, 2012

With three works that form kind of a spacial tryptychon Rudolf Stingel gives the main room of the Secession a melancholy and sacral aura. Downstairs canadian painter, sculptor, musician, photographer and filmaker Michael Snow installed recent works. Until Apr 15, 2012

February 20, 2012

The show "Beauty Contest" is a joint venture of MUSA and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and was alredy on show in the ACF NY in 2011. This project by austrian and international artist focuses on the human striving for beauty, the omnipresent dictates of beauty and how the individual is still able to maintain his or her freedom. Until May 26, 2012.

February 17, 2012

Urs Fischer has installed his show "Skinny Sunrise" at KUNSTHALLE Vienna.
With his sculptures he is balancing between grand gestures and pop attitude, playing with light and shadow, gravity, or materiality. Abstract, representational, and figurative artworks made of materials such as styrofoam, mirror glass or wax memorialize the vanitas motif and transience of the world. Curated by Gerald Matt and Angela Stief. February 17th - May 28th, 2012

February 14, 2012

The ALBERTINA shows more than 200 pastels, watercolours and drawings by Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. This is the first international show dedicated exclusively to this theme. Not only works on paper by Claude Monet, Éduard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley but also by Eugéne Boudin, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin and Jean-Lois Forain are on display as well as the Postimpressionists Paul Signac and Georges Seurat or Paul Gauguin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Striking is the freshness of the lines by pencil, charcoal and chalk. Until May 13, 2012.

February 09, 2012

BAWAG Contemporary shows four groups of works by young austrian artist Heidrun Holzfeind: "Colonnade Park" (2011) portaits people living in a Mies van der Rohe building in Newark with photos and videointerviews. "Friday market" is about a market held on the streets of Cairo. "CU/Mexico 68" (2007) reflects on the students movement in 1968 with video interviews, slides and photos. "Strictly Privat" is a recent work about the austrian architect Ernst Schwadron, who once lived in the building the BAWAG Contemporary showrooms are now located. Till Apr 1, 2012.

February 08, 2012

Claes Oldenburg talks about his beginnings as an artists, the early 60s in NY, his first important groups of work "The Street" and "The Store", the founding of Ray Gun and the "invention" of the Soft Sculptures. Excerpts from an artist talk in english with curator Achim Hochdörfer at MUMOK Vienna on Feb 4, 2012.

February 04, 2012

Mumok presents the largest show ever of Claes Oldenburg’s ground-breaking and emblematic early work of the 60s: The Street and The Store. Highlights are the icons of art history like his famous soft sculptures, that made him, together with Warhol and Lichtenstein, to one of the founding fathers of Pop Art. Till May, 28, 2012
This exhibition will travel to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Museum of Modern Art (Apr 14–Aug 5, 2013) and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (Sep 13, 2013–Jan 12, 2014).

Part II of the Claes Oldenburg show takes you inside the Mouse Museum. Oldenburg putted together an odd collection of kitsch, found objects, souvenirs, trivial everyday pieces and toys sometimes with a sexual connotation and humour plus material and prototyps for his art works. The Mouse Museum was first shown in 1972 at the documenta 5 in Kassel and then acquired by the Ludwig Collection and donated to the mumok. Later a seperate "Ray Gun" wing was added, also belonging to the mumok.

Claes Oldenburg talks about his beginnings as an artists, the early 60s in NY, his first important groups of work "The Street" and "The Store", the founding of Ray Gun and the "invention" of the Soft Sculptures. Excerpts from an artist talk in english with curator Achim Hochdörfer at MUMOK Vienna on Feb 4, 2012.

Maartje Oldenburg, daughter of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, talkes about the first proposals for the schow by Armin Hausdörfer, two years of work putting it together and renewing her personal early childhood memories about the art of her father...

February 03, 2012

The Essl Museum shows all 15 works by Anselm Kiefer owned by the Essl Collection, among them four new main works from the artist’s latest creative period. Prof. Karlheinz Essl has curated the exhibition himself. Until May 29, 2012.

February 01, 2012

This Gallery walk starts at Gallery Emanuel Layr who shows works by the slovakian artist Stano Filko. At Charim VALIE EXPORT has installed a new Video Edition "Metanoia" and works in which she combines photographie and laser. "all natual" presents works by various artist at Kro Art: Gabriele Berger, Marika Vicari, Peter Assmann, Jerej Forbici, Robert Mittringer, Guido Zehetbauer Salzer. At ZS art Robert Mittringer has a solo show with Werkstoff. Inspiration. Botschaft.